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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Expenditure (24 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: In 2019, a total of €71.25 million is available for the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme, in respect of private houses. This is made up of €57 million Exchequer funding, with the balance of €14.25 million being contributed by the local authorities.  A total of €45.9 million has been spent to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I am aware of his commitment to this issue in particular and I thank him and his constituents for their patience in terms of having it resolved. We did allocate additional money this year, following on from a previous Government commitment to the scheme. It does not need to go back to Cabinet. I can confirm to the Deputy that the scheme has...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Different local authorities operate different disregards in different ways when it comes to calculating income for persons who qualify for social housing. There are different thresholds in different parts of the country. Each local authority will examine household income and, depending on the types of social welfare payment of which people are in receipt, disregard them to make sure we are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. I will speak to the local authority about whether there have been unnecessary delays in completing the roadworks which can have a very large impact on businesses. Rates alleviation and rates bills are matters for councillors who must decide if they want to target particular parts of the county to support certain businesses at certain times or encourage a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: This is a major inconvenience for hundreds of thousands of people. A precautionary notice has been issued. The treatment process had begun on a portion of the water that went into a very large system but had not been completed. We believe the boil water notice is temporary. I will talk through the temporariness we hope to see. The testing is under way. The HSE needs to get three clear...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We estimate that at this stage less than 15% of the water in the system in the area concerned might be affected, but we do not know where it is because of how the system works.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We issued the boil water notice because of a health concern. We want to ensure people know that their drinking water is safe and clean.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I will come to that in a moment. In this instance we cannot be sure of that. Because we cannot be sure, as a precautionary measure on the advice of the HSE, we have issued a boil water notice to these households. As it happens, my senior team and I met Irish Water's senior management team on Monday to discuss a whole host of issues such as monitoring systems, capital investment plans, etc.,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have been in constant contact with Irish Water.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My officials have been in constant contact with Irish Water, the HSE and the local authorities-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I was informed by my officials-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----as soon as they were informed by Irish Water.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since then we have put in place the plans to notify the public, which is most important part here.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: As a key initiative of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is designed to fund the provision of public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical blockages and enable housing developments to be built on key sites at scale. Infrastructure being funded under LIHAF includes access roads, distributor roads,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s approach, based on advice to date, is that the economic functions of the Land Development Agency (LDA) do not give rise to an advantage either to the LDA or other parties under State Aid rules. The General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019 was developed taking account of legal advice in relation to State Aid.   The European...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I am very sorry, but the Deputy is incorrect in his understanding of the Land Development Agency on a number of fronts. To correct him on a couple of the issues that he raised, the LDA was established a year ago under the Corporate Bodies Act.

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: An interim board is in place, but a permanent CEO was appointed recently. In the past year it has been given the capital to begin to proceed to progress work on sites, which is what it has been doing. Eight sites are coming across to the Land Development Agency. Legislation to establish it on a statutory footing which is not necessary to enable it to do its work but which is important will...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is about planning and development, but the Deputy would not know anything about them, would he? He never did it when he was in government.

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is good to see that the Deputy is here all the same. He is welcome in the House.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant Administration (22 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Water Conservation Grant was introduced in 2015, as part of the Government's drive to promote increased conservation and more sustainable use of water services. The grant was administered by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, on behalf of my Department, and was available on a universal basis to principal private residences for which a completed...